Join us for a day of fun on Saturday 21st February 2015. You will be learning the art of making your own blue handmade cheese using traditional methods. This hands-on workshop is hosted by Sarah & Chris Styles-Power from The Shebbear Cheese Co in Devon.

Sarah & Chris will first guide you through the cheesemaking process, you will learn the use of cultures, rennets, draining, molding, salting and aging your cheese using everyday kitchen equipment.

Then they will teach you how to make two blue cheeses – your own Borough Blue and a Cambozola (blue brie) type. You will learn two different methods of adding the blue mould and you will then take the cheeses home to mature. Full instructions will be given on how to care for them.

For those of you looking to learn more about the art of sausage making, our brilliant local butcher, Stuart, will be hosting this mini workshop on Tuesday 17th March.

You will learn how to select the right meat for sausage making. Stuart will then teach you all the techniques for mixing and stuffing your own sausages, how to use the equipment and come up with your own uniquely flavoured sausage recipes.

Clavelshay Barn will also be serving snacks and drinks throughout the night.

Our most popular workshop with extremely talented local photographer Neil White is for anyone who has a keen interest in food photography. It may interest food bloggers, B&B owners and restaurant owners who would like to be able to create stronger images for their websites/printed literature themselves. You will need to bring a digital SLR camera with a standard or zoom lens. A tripod is not essential but preferable.

There are certain things you can experience in life that change the way you view the world. A Spring Foraging walk led by friendly, local expert Greg Power is one of them. Ask any forager why they scour the wilderness for food and the answer will invariably have something to do with the pleasure of communing with nature.

You will learn to confidently identify and sustainably harvest an amazing array of common wild edible and medicinal plants around Clavelshay Farm. This would include the introduction, safety brief, foraging walk – identifying flora and fauna, then collecting food ready for lunch.

There will be a lunch cooked over an open fire. Game meat or fish will be the order of the day.

After lunch another walk and tree identification if time permits.

A kit list, nutritional/medical needs form and directions will be provided once the course is booked.

Another fantastic workshop with our local 'expert of all things wild' instructor, Greg Power. This 6-hour workshop will teach you the basics of surviving in the wild. You will learn the core skills of fire, food, shelter and water. All learning is hands on and the days are packed with information. There is no skill level requirement for this course.

To include introduction, safety brief, safe cutting techniques, fire lighting, shelter building, water prep, string from nettles (if available) and some flora and fauna identification if time. We would cook up some protein for lunch either pigeon or rabbit etc.

Lashings of tea and coffee and a bushcraft lunch are included in the workshop.

A kit list, nutritional/medical needs form and directions will be provided once the course is booked.